Encrypted cyberattacks are surging, with 32.1 billion threats hiding in TLS/SSL-encrypted traffic over the past year—accounting for 87.2% of total threats.
Threat actors are taking full advantage of encrypted channels to deliver malware and hide malicious activities.
Source: ThreatLabz 2024 Encrypted Attacks report
Block access to malicious content.
Prevent users from accessing malicious websites and enforce corporate and regulatory policy compliance.
Always-online cloud-based sandboxing detects and protects users against any type of threat and sophisticated attack that signature-based anti-virus or spyware products can’t see.
100% visibility into and inspection of encrypted traffic.
Uncover and prevent evasive threats, including malware, spyware and ransomware, hiding in encrypted traffic. Block access to unwanted web applications that use encryption without or with misleading Server Name Indication (SNI) traditional web filtering solutions miss out on.
Ensure bandwidth, enable employee productivity, and manage compliance.
Up to 40% of internet activity is non-work related. Stop unproductive and inappropriate web browsing with granular access policies, give bandwidth priority to business-critical apps and report on compliance with built-in reporting.
100% encrypted traffic visibility and threat protection with Secure Web Gateway (SWG) full security stack.
Today’s use of cloud-based apps and services offer your organization greater agility, scalability, and cost savings. But this also expands your attack surface, exposing your organization to a massive volume of sophisticated cyber-threats and targeted attacks that easily evade traditional web security gateway or firewall products.
Instead of relying on anti-virus signatures and potentially outdated web-filter databases Internet security provided by SecureEdge delivers advanced security at scale with cloud-based web filtering, cloud-based sandboxing, and always–on full visibility into encrypted TLS/SSL traffic, as well as full transparency into user-to-app connections based on identity, context, and business policies.
Easy-to-use yet designed to meet even complex needs.
SecureEdge was designed for ease-of-use, but it covers even the most complex use cases and exceptions if necessary. In addition to regular block pages preventing access to unwanted or malicious websites, SecureEdge also supports "warn and access anyway" as well as silent notification and logging of unwanted websites. By default, a web filter policy applies to the entire network and even to all remote users protected with the SecureEdge Access Client. Creating override policies for specific sites, departments, users, or user groups is quick and easy with the intent-based web configuration portal inside the intuitive SecureEdge Manager user interface.
Regulatory compliance and web monitoring.
Wherever web filtering is deployed in educational and similar institutions, web monitoring is required to prevent potentially unwanted behavior. For this reason, SecureEdge services and SecureEdge site devices include pre-written English-language dictionaries of keywords and phrases related to harassment, weapons, terrorism, and pornography.
SecureEdge monitors keyword searches in these categories and notifies administrators for further action as defined by company policy. Alerts are tagged with real network user identities, timestamps, IP addresses, and search terms so that the source can be easily identified independently of online profiles.
Custom keywords for monitoring can be easily added via the web-based user interface.
Enable employee productivity, manage compliance, and block annoying web ads.
Up to 40% of internet activity is non-work related. So, stopping unproductive and inappropriate web browsing increases productivity, and prevents access to risky websites by enforcing granular web filter policies on user activities.
SecureEdge site devices control access to web sites, applications, based on users, groups, URL category, and other criteria. TLS/SSL filtering and inspection capabilities provide policy enforcement on social-media and search platforms that are otherwise obfuscated.
The built-in add-blocker removes distractions, protects users’ privacy and increases perceived internet speed.
Actionable dashboards.
Barracuda SecureEdge provides an intuitive dashboard for quick understanding of the threats and activities of users on and even off the network. The changes are immediately apparent on multiple customizable and drillable dashboards that feature user activity, top blocked users, top blocked websites, top blocked applications top allowed websites and many more.
Advanced reporting and log investigations.
For more granular and automated analytics, the built in Log viewer and analytics engine provides exactly the information you may ever need in a matter of seconds, including summary statements for user behavior and websites accessed, detailed user activity, security, and productivity.
You can customize any analytics task for individual timeframes and include all or just a subset of the deployed Secure Edge devices and services.
Global threat-intelligence network to stay ahead of new threats.
From Secure Internet Access (SIA) on mobile devices to a full-blown Secure Web Gateway to protect office environments, Barracuda’s unmatched global threat-intelligence network powers its security solutions by analyzing vast amounts of diverse, real-time threat information from millions of collection points around the world. Barracuda leverages this system to continually train its AI-based levels of threat-detection capabilities and respond to rapidly evolving threats. At the end of every threat detection process there is always sandboxing of the artefact in question.
Secure Internet Access (SIA) – for any device, at any time, and from anywhere.
Today’s users get work done from many places—internet cafés, home offices, airports, etc. They need to be protected from web-based threats the same way as if they were in an office.
The Barracuda SecureEdge Access Agents provide secure Zero Trust Access to business applications and at the same time enforce corporate web security policies, regardless of user location or device type.
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